This week's chapter is "Humans Be Trippin" because WE DO. So how can we at least stop trippin about the same stuff over and over again? Meditation helps -- here's the link to Zen Habits' free 44-day meditation program which is so great! I recommend it.

This week I'm reading out Chapter Three, "Our Bodies, Our Thoughts, Ourselves," all about how we are taught to think in not very loving ways about our own bodies, and what we might be able to do about that. Please enjoy!

And here's a timeline of what exactly needs to happen each decade in order for us to meet our Paris Accord agreements, which were mostly about keeping the temperature increase to only 2 degrees Celsius and here's the abstract of the Science paper it was based on

The March for Science is happening all over the country April 22 -- I hope you will take part!

If people hate the AHCA, and aren't super fond of ACA, then why not try for something even better? We aren't going to be playing defense forever ...

What Obama said is totally true:
"Our Constitution is a remarkable, beautiful gift. But it’s really just a piece of parchment. It has no power on its own. We, the people, give it power — with our participation and the choices we make. Whether or not we stand up for our freedoms. Whether or not we respect and enforce the rule of law. America is no fragile thing. But the gains of our long journey to freedom are not assured."

I hope you let this wind fill your sails! Thanks for listening, as always, and don't forget to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes, and tell your friends. Let's spread the word about resistance, self-care, and leapfrogging over these retrograde pieces of shit into a future that works for everyone.

Why we shouldn't fall for false equivalence arguments like "Angry protesters are just as bad as the things they are protesting" -- and how this kind of tone-policing dismisses important voices in our movement

How enraging it is when less-informed men come at me with condescending arguments as though I just need to be educated and then I'll think the same way they do

about where we can possibly go from here? Real-life hero Ursula Le Guin has some ideas which she shares here. She says that we need to be realists of a larger reality, and that's the conversation I'm interested in having -- not soothing someone who's upset they can't enjoy Meryl Streep movies any more.

This week's podcast has it all! There's a little bit of me talking a little bit about how the shit show that is America right now is triggering AF. And then there's an interview with my new pal Katie Farnan, one of the leaders of Indivisible Front Range Resistance, in which we discuss:

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This week we talk about a known bug in the human brain called the Fundamental Attribution error, and why insisting on ideological purity is a mistake. The answer to complexity isn't to shut it out or deny it; it's to develop our capacity for handling it:

Intersectionality: it's not just a fancy word made up by progressives to drive nice white women crazy. It describes the way that different forms of oppression intersect and can't really be divided in how they show up in the lives of individuals and groups.

This is the video from Robin DiAngelo, coiner of the phrase White Fragility, showing us how racism underpins almost every aspect of our lives, even/especially if we are not aware of it. It's about an hour long, and it's worth every second of your time.

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